Amanda Ripley Quotes

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Boredom is the specter that haunts children from kindergarten to graduation on every continent.

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The public totally discounts low-probability high-consequence events. The individual says, it's not going to be this plane, this bus, this time.

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Paralysis seems to happen on the steepest slope of the survival arc—where almost all hope is lost, when escape seems impossible, and when the situation is unfamiliar to the extreme.

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Resilience is a precious skill. People who have it tend to also have three underlying advantages: a believe that they can influence life events; a tendency to find meaningful purpose in life's turmoil; and a conviction that they can learn from both positive and negative experiences.

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